Accomplishments

“Medicolegal death investigation is the arsenal to public health and prevention efforts for our communities. If not completed within accreditation standards, we miss the opportunity to save lives.” Dotti

Professional Accomplishments:

International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners (IACME), Full Accreditation
International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners (IACME), Executive Board Member
CDC; Development of Opioid Overdose Medicolegal Death Investigation Training
Governor appointment to Idaho Child Fatality Review Team
Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention
Death Investigation Training Academy Advisory Board
Idaho State Association of Counties, President-Elect
National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME), Full Accreditation
National Association of Counties (NACo), Vice Chair Health and Human Services
Idaho State Association of County Coroners, President-Elect

Dotti is honored to have been asked to present to many government and other organizations on medicolegal death investigation and best practices.

The time spent with these organizations is imperative to county government, especially those within the Coroner/Medical Examiner field.

Organizations that she is or has been active in over the years. Many of these advocate for state and federal funding along with medicolegal death investigation standards. Additionally, suicide prevention and overdose prevention are at the forefront of these organizations, allocating grant funding for efforts.

Some of those include:

Idaho Criminal Justice Commission- Fentanyl In Idaho, Coroner’s Role
HOSHA- “Medicolegal Death Investigation”
Idaho State Association of County Coroners- “Beginning Medicolegal Death Investigation”
Idaho State Association of County Coroner- “Advanced Medicolegal Death Investigation”
Boise State University, Sr. Nursing – “Opioids and the Role of the Coroner”
Eastern Idaho, two-day training for Coroner’s and Law Enforcement -(Role and Responsibilities of the Coroner”
Idaho Funeral Home Association/Hospices – “Coroner’s, Death Certificates and our Role”
Idaho Association of Counties – “Suicides in Idaho, Challenges in Rural Jurisdictions”
State Juvenile Justice Association – “Suicides in Rural Idaho”
State Juvenile Justice Association – Overdoses in Idaho”
IAC New Elected Officials Training – “Role of the Coroner”
Drug Court -“Opioid Overdose and Awareness Prevention”
IACME, Co-presented – “Designer Death, from Pharm to Slab”
National Association of Counties – “Coroners and Opioids”
Idaho State Association of County Coroners – “Investigating Deaths”
Opiate Overdose and Awareness Prevention, Keynote Speaker; ‘Opioids”-
Idaho State Fire Chiefs Association – “Opioids”
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services ‘Suicide”
Boise City Club- “Inside the Coroner’s Office”
Idaho Association of counties – *Opioids”
Idaho Mental Health Summit -‘ Prescription Drug Take Back”
Idaho Mental Health Summit – “Opioids”
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy – “Suicides and Coroners”
Idaho Criminal Justice Committee – “Opioids, the Coroner Perspective”
Idaho Association of County Commissioners – “Role of the Coroner”

Career Experience

Ada County Coroner, Ada County Coroner’s Office (ACCO) – January 2015 to January 2023

Dotti has extensive knowledge in all aspects of leading a Coroner’s office, including a medicolegal death investigation team and forensic pathology team. Under her directions, she led the Coroner’s Office to become one of the best in the nation, obtaining both IACME and NAME accreditations. She has all the necessary experience and qualifications to continue to move a county coroner’s office, or medical examiner’s office forward.